How do you define yourself?
By arcadian
@arcadian (930)
United States
March 14, 2007 1:39pm CST
I don't mean on a job application or in a social introduction, but alone, in the silence, to yourself-who are you? Do you identify yourself with the way people treat you? Do you define yourself at all?
Has anything happened like temporary amnesia, or a strange encounter with a stranger that sorced you to encounter a deeper sense of yourself?
Do you have a sense of your self? How close is it to the person you present at work, to your friends, to your family?
2 responses
@arcadian (930)
• United States
17 Mar 07
there's a time in childhood when without the self-concscious awareness of observing that you know-you ARE your self, depending on whether you are being raised by people who protect that individuality of yours or are controlling-trying to mold you at your core- that knowledge may be just a rare sense of things for a brief time, or may be the constant of your days of play. As we get older, we have to adapt so mych in order to survive that few of us are able to maintain that original self. Then things change- and either survival issues are successfully settled or a person just no longer thinks the struggle is worth losing your self over (my case)- and the memory of who you are begins haltingly to return. You know yourself, the knowledge is obscured for now. that's all. Glad you responded.
@didi13 (2926)
• Romania
21 Nov 11
Life makes me realize things that I knew. These days we realized that we change with every moment that passes by us.
When we say that we know the man next to us, wrong. There's no way to know you than you. And even so, many times and you remain a mystery for yourself. What to say of others that I see from time to time and suddenly you look different than they were? I changed you? They changed them? The answer is yes to both questions.
Interact with people around us, known or unknown, we believe them know and, most importantly, we believe that we know and are able to judge them and us. But it is true? How do we know whether or not we know that there are situations where you already know how you react and new ones appear in your behavior is unexpected for you, more so for others.
Increasingly talk of self-knowledge, but as we change with every moment and all changes once lived with us, how to know yourself you anymore? For that, not infrequently, which is today no longer corresponds to a value of yesterday, and what do you think now is not what you thought a year ago. Often encounter a situation that reverses your entire value system and other appliances in place. Is there something stable around us? Or in ourselves? Can only moral values ??because otherwise even the rock does not remain the same, so it would be impossible for us humans.
Context changes, we are not the same and what a judge yesterday as today may request another evaluation. Sometimes to judge your fellow man just because of wrong context, without knowing what led them to behave so they put a label, negative in most cases, and ready. For then to realize that you are wrong, they are completely different than you considered at a time and that you tried absolutely subjective, depending on the context in which you were.
So, as long as you do not know everything about yourself, you should not think that I know in the others, not judge them.
